Here’s what’s behind the governor’s recent call for state agencies to make contingency plans to chop $50 million from their budgets. Some Republicans think a revenue shortfall could grow as high as $100 million or more.
Three economists recently briefed the House Ways and Means Committee on several threats to the state’s revenue stream as the national economy teeters at the edge of a possible a recession. They think the gross state product is well diversified and better buffered ...
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